Amaia Mugica in Chile

During a recent visit to the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, PRG member Amaia Mugica, led a workshop in physical theatre, working with Suzuki training, Viewpoints, and compositional practices. Across these sessions, the body was approached not simply as an instrument of performance, but as an archive, one that stores and transmits knowledge through lived, embodied experience.

Rather than prioritising precision or repeatability, the workshops foregrounded variation. Each exercise shifted in response to the specific bodies in the room, the cultural context, and the dynamics that emerged between participants. In this sense, embodied knowledge operated differently from technological forms of documentation: it did not aim to replicate, but to adapt, transform, and respond.

This encounter continues to inform Amaia’s research, raising questions about how embodied practices travel.

Here, the body emerges as an evolving archive, one that resists fixity and instead depends on transformation. The workshops became not only a space for teaching, but a site for exploring how embodied archives are activated and reconfigured in practice.